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Vint Cerf has been some combination of politician/lobbyist/bureaucrat for 30 years. Expecting him to have something meaningful to say is a sucker's bet.

• jcampbell1 15y ago
  Vint Cerf is the perfect advocate. He is one of the "inventors of the internet", dresses respectably, can write and speak articulately, and doesn't have neck beard. I have an enormous amount of respect for him, and I wish he had written something better. Your expectations of him are foolishly low; my expectations are probably unreasonably high.
  • nknight 15y ago
    Sounding good to Congress and looking good for the shallow masses is not the same as having something substantive to say. He generally just parrots the party line, and once in a while you get an article like this, where it looks like he tries to articulate something new, and it either ends up totally inscrutable, or completely banal. Meanwhile, his non-lobbying activities of the last 30 years include some rather disturbing things, such as a long stint on ICANN's board of directors. Have all the respect you want for his early contributions, but you've got three decades of evidence that he really has nothing substantive to add.